Pics from the loach tank

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• Nov 8, 2003

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Some pics from my semi aggro tank... loaches, tiger barbs and an rtbs live here...... Sorry, not the best quality on some of these shots.. they're just all so quick!!!

 

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You can see a lot of fish in that pic if you look. lol

Here's one of the new Schisturas, pigging out. These guys are some very cool lil fishies.

 

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This one isn't the greatest pic of the Schistura because he's behind a blob of algae , but it gives a good idea of how little they and the baby yo yos are, compared to the tiger barb.

 

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Here's the smaller of my two skunk botias. The larger of the two refused to participate in this photo shoot (and every single other one I've ever done )

 

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One of my adult yo yos...

 

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And one of my babies...

 

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This guy's big and feisty. lol

 

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Last one!

 

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• Nov 8, 2003

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Great pics! your loaches are fantastic (I love loaches!)
the second pic....what is that? it looks almost identical to my red tailed zebra loaches (they're so mean!)

 

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It's a Schistura... I think it's a menenensis.. It was labelled as a 'red tailed sandbar loach' at my lfs ... of course, there's no such thing. lol They only got three in, so of course I had to buy them all. I just got them yesterday and they are MEEEEEEEEAN. They're sooo tiny, but they're throwin' down in that tank!! They're not very common and don't even have a common name. I did show a pic of one to a very knowledgable loach person earlier today though, and he confirmed that they're schisturas.

P.S. I absolutely love loaches too

 

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well...I love em! They're just too cute. I love my little zebras too, I searched for info on them when I first brought them home and only found one website and the info was scarce , but whew,they're pretty tough for being so tiny. I watched them kill an otto so quickly I didn't have a chance to save him and when I dumped the kuhlie loaches in their tank yesterday...err uhhm,they weren't too receptive of their new tank mates

I love your skunks too and , I just noticed you already said what those loaches were called up there,sorry about that )

 

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Yeah, these little guys look more like kuhlis than skunks or yo yos and I was worried about putting such tiny fish in with such aggro ones. That's pretty funny, in retrospect. They're layin' down the law in there!! I love them, though. It's so fun when you find an unusual fish.

 

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The schistura look very similar to a fish in Baensch volume two called Oreonectes sp. (pages 356-357 for those who want to look it up).

 

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Yeah CFC... loaches can be pretty tough to identify! There are so many similar ones. I saw these at the lfs and had no clue what they were. I looked through a million pics online, and the sch. were the ones that looked like them. Graeme says Oreonectes are still part of the Sch. family? I dunno man. I just dig my lil loachies.